Posted on 05/10/2016 9:42:31 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
I am so sorry I am only finding out about this now, a day late. I would have flown across the country to attend. Imagine the acrobatics Ghassan Hage had to perform in order to make this even remotely plausible, even with the audience so eager to be fooled that he undoubtedly had. On the other hand, if the dim-bulb Islamophobia-fearmonger Haroon Moghul (thats right, Dwayne) could sell Time Magazine on the idea that Islamophobia is responsible for Americas crumbling infrastructure, academic audiences these days may be even stupider than I thought.
Is ISLAMOPHOBIA accelerating global warming?, MIT Global Studies and Languages, May 9, 2016 (thanks to Faisal Saeed AlMutar):
The Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies And Languages Presents: Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne
Introduced By Bettina Stoetzer, Global Studies And Languages Mon. May 9 5:00 pm 2-105
This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as generalised domestication.
Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut. He works in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and racism and on the relation between anthropology, philosophy and social and political theory. His most well-known work is White Nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society (Routledge 2000). His is also the author of Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imaginary (Melbourne University Press 2015). He is currently working on a book titled Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming? and has most recently published a piece in American Ethnologist, titled: Etat de Siege. A Dying Domesticating Colonialism? (2016) that engages with the contemporary refugee crisis in Europe and beyond.
The talk is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Global Studies and Laguages, Global Borders Research Collaboration, MIT Anthropology
Not long ago I regarded MIT as a seat of higher learning and a significant brain trust. Consider that bubble bursted all to hell and gone.
IMHO, Jonathan Gruber already flushed their reputation down the crapper.
I knew Harvard was overrated & a joke of a school. I had higher regard for MIT & thought it was a “real” school.
Obviously I was wrong.
I thought smart people went to MIT.
This world and the alliance the Democrats have with Radical Islam is beyond any beliefs. But then again, in the Last Days, what is right will be wrong and what is wrong will be right
Is belief in global warming accelerating Christianophobia ?
Is liberalism accelerating global senile dementia?
Are unicorns affecting the gnome population? Equally valid question.
They’re actually serious about this! The insanity of the left is growing!
Wow.
Hate Islam AND PO enviro-fascists. What a great twofer.
When will these twits learn that a religion is not a race?
Moreover, simply understanding and acknowledging Islam for what it Is, and wanting to act accordingly, is apparently amounts to Islamophobia to the PCdiots as well.
Any old excuse will do in a pinch.
Stoner grad students. They sit around and get high on mushrooms and record their sessions. When they’re sober, they turn them into “research” papers.
If you think I’m kidding, I know of 2 peer-reviewed, grant-funded research theses done EXACTLY this way.
Was this a contest to take the 2 most disparate concepts and somehow marry them? FAIL.
Theyre so smart that theyre idiots.
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We’ve got one in the office. What you say is true. And unbearably so.
Why yes, yes it is. /super sarc.
Wouldn’t a better question be, “Is Islam accelerating global warming”?
After all, Islam has made the birth place of Western Civilization what it is today, a barren desolate wasteland.
"Somebody" was pushing the theory that global warming started with Christianity about a decade or so ago.
Probably the same people seeing if this ridiculous idea sticks instead.
Obviously, a clear cause-effect relationship... /s/
Where do they come up with this idiocy?
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